"I made this," says T.J. Lynch, gesturing to an oversized, wooden muddler. (It is, more accurately, a repurposed French rolling pin that Lynch sawed in half.) It's clear that Lynch, who…
A protégé of legendary bartender Dale DeGroff, Julie Reiner has been a key player in the modern cocktail scene for well over a decade. After moving to the continent from her native Hawaii,…
“I’m repeating a message that has very much been a message for the last three or four years,” says Sam Anderson. “It’s like, ‘Don’t take it so seriously, but take…
In June 2016, Amanda Smeltz took over the wine program at New York’s Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud, filling the shoes of longtime sommelier Michael Madrigale. There, not only did…
NoMad bar director Leo Robitschek is as much a perfectionist as he is an innovator. After joining the team at Eleven Madison Park a little over a decade ago—and being…
Fresh off the heels of a stint at New York’s Experimental Cocktail Club, bartender Xavier Herit opened his own concept, Wallflower, in 2013. Though he had designed the small, 45-seat…
“Once you get the technique, it’s pretty easy,” says Greg Doroski of brewing beer. “But like anything,” he adds, “that knowledge can get kind of stale; if you just get…
Though he didn’t anticipate a career in wine, it’s no surprise that John Paterson wound up in the industry. His first job was working at his parents’ Alabama restaurant, and…
As a pre-teen, years before he was legally allowed to drink, Damon Boelte was an avid collector of cocktail books. And in retrospect, that's really no surprise; his longstanding fascination with drinks…
There are few movements within the cocktail world as pervasive as that of modern tiki, so much so that it’s easy to forget that the genre, not long ago, teetered…